China engine
How to track brand visibility in Qwen
Qwen is Alibaba's assistant and requires an account for chat. Its source patterns lean on the Alibaba ecosystem, which makes it the surface that matters most for brands with any commerce presence in China.
What matters on this engine
Because Qwen ships across Alibaba Cloud products, the same brand can appear very differently in the consumer app than in enterprise integrations. We measure the consumer app.
Citation structure
Inline sources on search-augmented answers.
Access model
Requires a genuine account. We run real accounts at deliberately low rate and rotate them, rather than farming disposable identities.
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Data types we return for Qwen
Each field is parsed, sampled and priced separately on this engine. Open one to see how it renders here, what the response looks like and where it goes wrong.
Qwen citations
The linked sources an engine attaches to its answer.
citations
Qwen brand mentions
Unlinked names in the answer body, which citations miss entirely.
brand_mentions
Qwen sources
The full reference panel, including sources the answer never links inline.
sources
Qwen answer text
The raw synthesised answer, stored verbatim as evidence.
answer_text
Qwen share of voice
Your brand against its competitors, across the whole prompt set.
share_of_voice
Qwen sentiment
How the answer characterises a brand, not just whether it names it.
sentiment
Qwen prompt volatility
How much the same prompt disagrees with itself.
prompt_volatility
Qwen position
Where in the citation set you land, not just whether you are in it.
position
Qwen locale variance
The same prompt, run in different markets, disagreeing.
locale_variance
Track Qwen from next week
See it in the dashboard, or pull it into your own tools — either way, tell us your prompt set and target markets and we'll come back with a coverage plan and a price for this engine alongside anything else you need.
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